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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/05/2021 11:12 PM Updated by: thepinetree on 04/05/2021 11:12 PM
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Retiring Sheriff Ryan Administered the Oath of Office for New Amador Sheriff Gary Redman

Jackson, CA...On Friday April 2nd, Sheriff Ryan administered the Oath of Office for Sheriff Gary Redman. Sheriff Redman officially took office at 00:01 on April 4th. Sheriff Redman previously served as Undersheriff and has been with the Amador County Sheriff’s Office since 1998. Congratulations Sheriff Redman and we look forward to your career full of continued success as Amador County’s 26th Sheriff.









With Sheriff Redman taking office, today he administered the Oath of Office to his newly appointed Undersheriff, Bryan Middleton. Undersheriff Middleton has been with the Sheriff’s Office since 1999 and was most recently the Operations Captain. Also during the ceremony, Nathan Woods was promoted to Sergeant.

Sergeant Woods was previously assigned to the Investigations Bureau. Congratulations Undersheriff Middleton and Sergeant Woods.

Though the Sheriff’s Office is going through administrative changes, serving the citizens of Amador County remains our top priority. Ready to Protect, Proud to Serve.

Source = Amador Sheriff's Office


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Prosecutors Ask Jurors To Dismiss George Floyd Autopsy Findings
Posted on: 2021-04-06 06:35:20   By: Anonymous
 
Prosecutors are now asking the jury to effectively dismiss the findings of the only official autopsy in the case and insist, contrary to those findings, that Floyd died from asphyxia, or, lack of oxygen. Some new disclosures may make that claim more difficult for the prosecution.

Last week, special prosecutor Jerry Blackwell admitted to jurors that Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker pointed to cardiac arrest as Floyd’s cause of death. However, he insisted that the state would prove that “was … not a fatal heart event,” but asphyxiation.

It is a bold move since it could invite reasonable doubt on the cause of death. The question is whether a case of manslaughter could have been advanced without the need of opposing the state’s own coroner on such findings. The failure of Chauvin to respond to a medical emergency speaks more to manslaughter than murder but it could be framed consistently with these findings. Instead, the prosecution has asked the jury to effectively reject the coroner’s findings — a risky maneuver.

We have previously discussed key defense elements in the case:

When called to the scene due to Floyd allegedly passing counterfeit money, Floyd denied using drugs but later said he was “hooping,” or taking drugs.
The autopsy did not conclude that Floyd died from asphyxiation (though a family pathologist made that finding). Rather, it found “cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s).” The state’s criminal complaint against Chauvin said the autopsy “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.” He also was COVID-19 positive.
Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, strongly suggested that the primary cause was a huge amount of fentanyl in Floyd’s system: “Fentanyl at 11 ng/ml — this is higher than (a) chronic pain patient. If he were found dead at home alone & no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD (overdose). Deaths have been certified w/levels of 3.” Baker also told investigators that the autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting Floyd died of asphyxiation.

The toxicology report on Floyd’s blood also noted that “in fatalities from fentanyl, blood concentrations are variable and have been reported as low as 3 ng/ml.” Floyd had almost four times the level of fentanyl considered potentially lethal.

Floyd notably repeatedly said that he could not breathe while sitting in the police cruiser and before he was ever restrained on the ground. That is consistent with the level of fentanyl in his system that can cause “slowed or stopped breathing.”

Floyd’s lungs were two to three times the normal size and filled with fluid. “Pulmonary edema is a condition caused by excess fluid in the lungs” and it is symptomatic of an opioid overdose, according to Mayo Clinic.
Finally, the restraint using an officer’s knee on an uncooperative suspect was part of the training of officers, and jurors will watch training videotapes employing the same type of restraint as official policy.
What is interesting is that the prosecution is putting on experts like they are making a defense case. It is usually the defense that brings in a host of doctors to challenge official autopsy findings. Here however the state doctor’s findings contradict the prosecutor’s case.

Conversely, Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, sounds more like the typical prosecutor noting that there is only one official autopsy and one official report on the cause of death. He told the jury “Dr. Baker found none of what are referred to as the telltale signs of asphyxiation. There was no evidence that Mr. Floyd’s airflow was restricted and he did not determine [it] to be a positional or mechanical asphyxia death.”

Nelson can rely on other aspects of the official record. When Baker went over findings in a meeting last December with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, he specifically noted that the knee restraint was not likely to produce asphyxiation: “[I]t appeared to Dr. Baker that the pressure to the neck was coming from the back or posterior lateral portions of the back, and none of these strictures would impact breathing or cause loss of consciousness,” said a document summarizing the meeting.” He noted a study that found that placing 200 pounds of weight or more on a healthy person did not have an “observable impact on breathing.”

Instead, Baker cited the drugs in the system as well as the 75-80% narrowing of coronary arteries that “put him at risk for a sudden cardiac arrest.” The record of the meeting states “Dr. Baker offered that one possibility for the pathway of Floyd’s death is that Floyd’s heart was starting to fail because of the stress, drugs, enlarged heart, and [heart] disease . . . He said that once the heart starts to fail … one of the symptoms is the perception that you cannot breathe.”

After those findings were released, Baker’s office had to be put under police protections due to threats to him and his staff.

By focusing the jury on the autopsy report, and asking them to effectively dismiss the conclusions of the only official report, the prosecutors increase the chances of a hung jury and even an acquittal. I previously expressed reservations about the push for murder charges because the case is better suited for a manslaughter case. If a jury feels the prosecutors have over-charged a case, it can produce a loss of credibility in the case. When you add an argument to dismiss the state’s own autopsy findings, you risk magnifying such skepticism or mistrust with jury members.

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Is this the "white supremacy" against Asians the media keeps talking about?
Posted on: 2021-04-06 06:42:00   By: Anonymous
 
Disturbing video out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin shows a group of Black Lives Matter thugs intimidating patrons of an Asian-owned nail salon.

The footage shows a gang wearing Original Black Panthers of Milwaukee jackets hollering at patrons of Jade’s Nails about “disrespecting the black community.”

“Look at him runnin’,” one BLM militant says to the Asian owner. “Why you runnin’?

Black Lives Matter activists intimidate an Asian nail salon in Milwaukee. pic.twitter.com/iMXBMSKs4F

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 3, 2021

The man continues to berate the owner for allegedly calling the police on one of their members.

“You disrespecting Black Lives Matter!” he shouts. “I’m here to tell you that’s going to stop!”

“He disrespects black women by calling them ‘bitches’!” continued. “That’s gonna stop! Do I make myself clear?”

The stunned owners try to avoid the confrontation but the BLM leader continues to harass them as the other members chuckle in the background.

“What’s your name sir? Look at him run and hide, he runnin’ and hidin’,” he says. “You ever disrespect a black woman again, we gonna shut you down.”

The group then began chanting “No justice, no peace” before leaving the establishment.

In recent weeks the mainstream media has been quick to generate a false narrative that white people are targeting Asians over COVID-19, but FBI statistics and a plethora of other news items show blacks commit more crimes against Asians than any other racial group.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2021-04-06 07:22:51   By: Anonymous
 
BLM, Antics attacking police, dems keep rioting, burning, attacking anyone or everyone who looks at them, while the left prosecutors the mayor the governor's of Washington and Oregon do nothing. What's the WH do, their response? NOTHING, JUST LIKE AT OUR BORDER
What a disgrace the WH and all the Dems have become.
Only thing the Dems are concerned with is trying to pass bills that will keep them in power, trying to create the democrat party as America's new Dictatorship, and the dem voters seem to be oblivious to it all, they just want that free check.


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    Posted on: 2021-04-06 08:36:19   By: Anonymous
     
    ^Fuk Trump^

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